Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

Man, didn’t look before posting that here and thus didn’t realize the last like several dozen posts are about that thread. FTR I don’t really have a dog in the fight and I think people are making much better points than I could make from all sides and from a better place than I could.

this is fan fiction right?

So what

despite quality commentary (and commenters) i will NOT bookmark this thread NOPE.

^ilx serenity prayer

Lol

he'd be posting on this thread, he'd be the one that said something funny or interesting

Lol correct

The only good thing about this thread is as a source of abundant natural gas when Putin decides to cut Europe off this winter.

Is there not enough horror in the world as it is? Do we really need to torment ourselves with 30 alternative horrible futures too?

who the hell uses the fourth amendment

luckily the book i am editing today is all but the revolutionary political value of forgiveness

Turkets?? DEATH? WHY!

Probably also wouldn’t be so quick to highlight someone else being incorrect about something if I was doing something as stupid as naming my high profile employer online constantly.

Yes I said "cassingles" and even if it was a trifle anachronistic in context I stand by the spirit of the post. Because "cassingle" will never not be funny

if I didn't care for the work of a popular musician I would simply not expend any thought on them

^Truth B

I don't think REM is boring

but okay

de gustibus etc.

i think that would have been a perfectly fine objection for the thread! although you would be right if you sensed that the thread was not really about whether rem is boring or not

Spiderman Anus

^kind of a weird inclusion for the "Beatles remaster" thread but ymmv

Late great - precisely. I love the B52s and I do not wish to detract from a celebration of their awesomeness with a de gustibus detour.

I don’t care how much impact it’s had on the culture, Twitter is and always has been bullshit and anyone saying otherwise can eat my ass

That's a middlebrow poet opinion.

BY NO MEANS "a beauty way to go"

That's a middlebrow poet opinion.

I wouldn't bother. You show it already to everyone here on a daily basis.

Lovely how a little joke about a disagreement becomes nasty, fuck you dickhead

How is calling you a middlebrow pet nasty?

Poet.

That's got me wondering what a middlebrow pet would be tbh.

Parrots.

that's quite apt coming from someone whose only contribution to ilx is c&ping other people's tweets

I can c&p posts from here too. Like this one:

That's why I am not going to post to ILE any more; I'm going to be the one who changes. But if you fucking dare approach me on ILM I'm going to say some things which make today's freakouts seem like a warm and friendly greeting. Adios.

― imago, Friday, 1 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

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xyzzz, fwiw i read yr post as insulting because middlebrow is actually an insult, in most contexts. tho we disagree sometimes i really value many of your posts , even if you dislike me and my posts. we can’t all be friends, that’s fine!

Hi table, I was just teasing you. I found it a tad annoying you were like "eat my ass" in the passive aggressive thread.

Fwiw, I like some of your posts too, your enthusiasm for Prynne and passion for poetry.

Nice to see LJ back on ILE.

😲😲😲

lj is merely the 103rd ilxor to renounce posting forever only to start up again within weeks or months. i think morbs held the record for the most with treesh lagging not far behind.

There’s no mystic moment involved just
that we are
is how, each
severally, we’re
carried into
the wind which makes no decision and is
a tide, not taken. I saw it
and love is
when, how &
because we
do: you
could call it Ierusalem or feel it
as you walk, even quite jauntily, over the grass.

in the brow middle
is where we lived
before our breakup
-rupi kaur

not really the thread for it, but i don't really use midbrow as an insult, more as a sociological (or bourdieuvian) descriptor for taste or for critical strategies and habits

my comment on mckuen was literal observed fact: here's a poet i've never read or heard a line by (and have no investment in in any direction) who since the 70s i've only ever encountered by name being denounced by midbrow commentators as (for this reason or that) by no means it

this is the kind of thing i find funny (time for bourdieu to write abt me eh)

aw i like rod mckuen, i've only heard a record or two, he's cozy imo, nothing wrong with that also imo.

reminds me of my journey from being disgusted by the comic strip cathy to ironically liking it to just plain liking it but i mean in small doses.

This morning my ADHD ear worms have decided it’s perfectly normal to loop the old Club Biscuit advert song combined with SFA ‘Rings Around The World’

“If you like
a lot of chocolate on your
RINGS AROUND THE WORLD”

It has been hours, send help

You want this thread
Earworm mashups: the thread for having multiple songs stuck in your head

If we're doing old adverts, Leonard Cohen 'Aint no cure for love' always ends up as the Brooke Bond 'I could do with a D' ad song for me...

I knew there was a suitable thread but search failed me, thx

not really the thread for it, but i don't really use midbrow as an insult, more as a sociological (or bourdieuvian) descriptor for taste or for critical strategies and habits

i see it as a bourdieuble edged sword

that joek is symbolic violence

but is it horribly formed?

also your mom is symbolic violence